Blurring the line between fact and fiction

Karen Joy Fowler's fifth novel follows 2004's The Jane Austen Book Club, which was made into a movie last year. Wit's End offers themes similar to those found in that very popular book, but takes some mysterious and highly divergent paths along the way.Rima Lanisell is a 29-year-old high school teacher in Cleveland who has lost her whole family—her mother a long time ago to an...